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A 2007 Lamborghini Murcielago belonging to NBA All-Star Allen Iverson that was towed by Atlanta Police from a Buckhead restaurant parking lot in April because it didn’t have a license tag, is still sitting in an Atlanta impound lot, reports Atlanta Business Chronicle broadcast partner WXIA-TV.

A source told WXIA reporter Jeff Hullinger that since it costs about $14,000 a year to buy a Georgia tag for such a car, and since Iverson’s car has not had a tag in four years, to get it back he would need to pay about $56,000 to the state and $300 to Futo’s for each month the car sits at the company's city-contracted impound lot off Cheshire Bridge Road in Atlanta.

When the car was impounded, Iverson infamously told police, according to a police report, “Take my car, I have 10 others.”

Atlanta police have tried without success to contact Iverson, an Alpharetta resident, by certified mail and through other methods, according to police department spokeman Carlos Campos. After 90 days, the impound lot can declare a car abandoned and sell it at public auction, Hullinger reported, adding there doesn’t seem to be a rush to sell the car.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported in November 2010 that Iverson, who played for the Philadephia 76ers, was apparently broke despite a once highly lucrative basketball career and Reebok shoe contract.